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Although rejection of a bipartisan gun control measure could be an ominous precursor to trouble for immigration reform, supporters insisted Thursday that their powerful coalition will help them avoid …

Texas Romney campaign spokesman Chris Walker said the campaign is “fighting for every vote in all the swing states” like Colorado and Florida. “Broadly speaking, we have a very vibrant Latino outreach in all the swing states,” Walker said as he made his way to a rally in Colorado on Wednesday. “It’s a very important group Gov. Romney is reaching out to on a regular basis.” …

“There could be additional positive images of Latinos of there,” said Matt Barreto, a national pollster who tracks Latino voters and producer of the survey. “But if they’re on stations nobody is watching or if they’re on radio stations that nobody’s listening to, it doesn’t matter. The big popular media stations control a lot of the messaging.” …

In swing states the Arizona immigration enforcement law will continue to resonate politically. In Nevada, the pollsters found that 74 percent of Latino voters say they know an undocumented immigrant, and in Arizona, 68 percent. …

Obama said Republicans in Congress blocked the DREAM Act, forcing him to issue a temporary directive to lift the shadow of deportation and give hope to children who were brought here for no fault of their own. …

Immigration-related issues have surpassed job-creation as the Latino voters’ primary political concern, according to a June 2011 poll.

The survey, conducted by the Hispanic news company impreMedia and the Latino-data website Latino Decisions, found that Immigration reform and the DREAM Act surpassed unemployment and job creation – which respondents prioritized in a November 2010 survey — for the first time in February.